Forcing all table rows to stay together

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Forcing all table rows to stay together

Hi there.

I have been looking around, and either I'm the first one, or I have been looking the wrong places, but here is my problem:

I need a table, that I have created, to have all its rows stay together. Currently I'm working in a three column landscape text document, and with inline tables. I need to make sure that rather than splitting a table up between the columns (i.e. two rows in one column, three in another) the table-rows stay together and shifts to a completely new column. And I would prefer if this was possible without making the tables floating objects.

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Pages ´09 (v. 4.0.5)

Posted on Jul 3, 2011 1:10 PM

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Answer 1

Barry

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Jul 3, 2011 2:03 PM in response to ekampp

Hi,

Other than making your tables floating objects, you could insert a column break in front of the table. This would immediately move table to the top of the next column, where it would stay until there wasn't sufficient room for text above it to fit in the previous column.

For finer control, you can place the column break higher in the text.

Not fully automatic, but it does keep the table together, and does allow for some tweaking.

Regards,

Barry

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ekampp Author

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Jul 3, 2011 2:06 PM in response to Barry

I am using that method right now, but since the document is changing alot, and not only at the end of it, it would be nicer to have some way of setting a "rows-stay-together" flag in the table inspector. Does anybody know of something like that?

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Answer 3

Barry

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Jul 3, 2011 4:26 PM in response to ekampp

All controls available in the Table Inspector are displayed on one of the two pages available in the Table Inspector.

I did try adding two columns, one to each side of the table, then merging each of those columns into a single cell spanning all rows. No joy. The table continued to move to a new column a row at a time.

But another thought did occur, and does work. Paste your table, as an inline object, into a Text box, sized at the minimum to enclose the whole table without triggering the "+" overflow indicator. Make the Text box an inline object. The box, when pushed to a new column, will move as a single object, and will carry the whole table with it. Here's an example. I've set the bottom margin to 7 in to minimize the vertical space needed to demonstrate the result. Display shows the three columns and the header space, the table and it's enclosing text box.

Regards,

Barry

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